On the Line
Readings in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf, and Hugh Hood
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920802311
- Publish Date
- Jun 1982
- List Price
- $8.95
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
Unhampered by any predetermined theme or critical mould, Lecker is free to respond to the qualities and idiosyncrasies which make Blaise, Metcalf, and Hood unique. Lecker's introduction discusses the writers' development and traces their impact on the modern Canadian short story. Three diverse readings follow. The first reveals Blaise's tragic view of life; the second focuses on how Metcalf's stories are structured on their protagonists' aesthetic stance; and the third provides a close reading of Hood's Looking Down From Above.”
About the author
Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University. He is the editor of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English, and the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line, Robert Kroetsch, Another I, Making It Real, Dr. Delicious, The Cadence of Civil Elegies, and Keepers of the Code.
Editorial Reviews
“Short fiction is an area of Canadian literature which has never received the full attention that it deserves. Robert Lecker has remedied this imbalance with . . . On the Line.” —Scrivener
“ . . . sets a new standard for Canadian literary criticism.” —Quill & Quire
Other titles by
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?
Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje
Who Was Doris Hedges?
The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent
Anthologizing Canadian Literature
Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives
Keepers of the Code
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
The Cadence of Civil Elegies
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Volume XII
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Fiction Volume XI
Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Volume XI
The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Volume 6
